Ed Perlstein, who has archived collections by Nick Gravenites, Spencer Dryden, Steve Keyser (John Cipollina’s manager) and others, and who currently possesses John Cipollina’s personal tapes, was given the approval of John’s sister, Antonia, to share John’s live and studio outtake recordings in the interest of keeping his music alive for future generations.  Steve Keyser, who recorded most of John's live shows with several different bands while he was his manager, has allowed Ed to digitize his master cassettes, and to share them with John’s fans and collectors.

Charlie Kaiser has recently given us access to his soundboard masters.  He was the Front Of House soundman and recording engineer for virtually all of John's bands from about 1983 until his passing. This included Thunder and Lightning, Dinosaurs, Terry and The Pirates, Problem Child, and any of the spinoff bands.



Copperhead
The Longbranch
San Francisco, CA
1972-03-17

Source: 7” 1/4 track reel @ 3 3/4 ips (low gen) from the collection of Nick Gravenites
Lineage: wav > iZotope RX10 Advanced > iZotope Ozone 11 > CD Wav > Flac16


Set I

01   tuning
02   Kibitzer
03   Back Roads
04   Pete's Instrumental
05   Rock 'n' Roll Party
06   Drunken Irish Setter
07   Wang Dang Doo
08   Rider >
09   Cobra >
10   Rider (reprise)


Set II

01   noodling and tuning
02   I'm Not The Man I Used To Be
03   unknown
04   Good Time Boogie
05   Spin-Spin
06   Hogan's Goat
07   Exuberance
08   Keeper Of The Flame
09   Bigelow 6-9000
10   Roller Derby Star



probably

John Cipollina - guitars
Gary Philippet    vocals, guitars, organ
Jim McPherson - vocals, piano, bass, percussion
David Weber - drums, percussion
Pete Sears    - bass, keyboards

??? - Harmonica


Source provided by Steve Keyser
Transferred by Ed Perlstein  www.musicimages.com
Pitch checked by Seth Kaplan
Files tagged by Mike Schuncke
Artwork by Bruno
Edited and mastered
SIRMick March 2024

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